Royalist cuirassiers War of three Kingdoms 20

 Not a Napoleonic post? A first for a while, we have here a unit of Royalist cuirassiers, I know  that there is no historical record , however I'll use this as a royal lifeguard unit and if I'm being honest, I have an ulterior motive with this unit and that is to use them in the Thirty years war, where I will need lot's more, mmm Polish winged hussars, Ottomans, all far removed from the anglocentric War of three Kingdoms, but for now they can stand in as a Royalist guard unit! 

They're half of a warlord games box of cuirassiers, plastic horses and metal figures with a choice of arms. You get twelve in a box, my units in pike and shot tend to be eight  strong, so rather than discard four ( heaven forfend!) I scrapped together some other figures, enter the unit commander a Foundry general in half armour demoted to leading the unit, lovely characterful figure, the unarmoured trumpeter was easy enough to do with standard warlord plastic parts and the others were made up of adding spare armoured arms to the most armoured of the warlord plastic set. The right arm was easy enough but I had to carve out the left and cut and shunt a spare metal right arm to fit but I  think it worked!

I've got a  game of Pike and Shot , the battle of Brentford coming up soon, so these will be useful for that but what I'm really short of is artillery so I'm working on that.

A variety of ebay purchases ,key rings , novelty items and some battle masters being converted plus a couple of scratch built battle carts for Ravenna in the background, the key ring guns will be battalion type guns with smaller  barrels in case/when I  go Swedish I've also got to prep and paint 42 gunners, mostly old glory, maybe not all at the same time?!

All the best 

Iain 

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